Hello,

In this thread I don't want to discuss the already existing names that often are quite funny if you understand German . Instead I want to collect new names that you invented or that you came across somehow. So, if you have funny or interesting names for people and places, please post them here!

The names don't necessarily have to be the German-type names of the Empire, but can also be French, Italian, Spanish, Arabic, Japanes etc. for the more exotic places in the Old World.

What I don't have in mind, though, are ordinary names like Jean, Jacques, André etc. Those you can easily come by. I'm (and hopefully you are too) interested in more droll or suggestive stuff. I hope we have fun with this thread. And thanks!

For a start:

There was this German stage director Christoph Schlingensief. That sounds already funny and would be a porper name for the head of a travelling theater group or a theater house in a big city. Schlinge means loop or noose, so it would also make a good name for a hangman. Sief is an old German word nobody understands anymore. It had something to do with trickle or drip and was used for medicine that was to be "dropped" in the eyes.

I also like to play with the name and get: SINGENSCHLIEF. Singen means to sing, and schlief is past tense of schlafen, to sleep. That would make a name for a nurse or a minstrel who manages to sing the audience to sleep.

As a last name I also like: Hefezopf. This is a southern German pastry which resembles a challah bread. Obviously a name for a (preferably female, because of Zopf=braid) baker or pastry cook. Would also make a fine Halfling name. If you want it to be more noble and/or masculine, you can also take HEFEKRANZ.

I also like the idea of a drunkard named BIERDURST (beer+thirst), a term for a diesease that is very common in Germany .

Mr. LIEBESKNOCHEN (Lovebone) could be a Halfling Pattiseur, pastry cook, since the German word refers to an Eclair. Considering other connotations that come to mind, he could also be a pimp in the streets of Nuln or Altdorf.

Imperial society isn't easy on underage girls or young unwed women who get pregnant. Or at least I imagine it is like that. So pregnant women without a husband often get kicked out of their families and have to live on the streets. If they haven't already been there before. For village folk this means that they sooner or later get killed by beastmen, wild beasts or other, or that they find a new home with a group of outlaws and are killed sometime later by the brave roadwardens and soldiers of the Empire. But in the big cities they have to live in the gutter where there is little chance that they can raise their child.

Luckily there are some good souls who care about them. There is a small Shallyan order that tends to the needs of the unwed pregnant girls. Somewhere in the woods near one of the big cities they keep an asylum for pregnant girls. This rather sinister and cheerless place is called MUTTERSCHUTZ MANOR (to be pronounced english like in buttercup). The women have to follow a strict code of pious demeanor. After all they have to pay for their sin, so they are expected to lead an untarnished live henceforth. The improvement of their ways is ensured by all kinds of school-like punishments. The Shallyan nuns can be as grim and perilous as anything else in the Old World.

Mutterschutz Manor being a dark and austere place, there are secrets and adventures to be found. Some of the nuns could be part of a Slaneesh cult. Why are there so few children? What happens to them when they are born? Why was Maike Arglos brought to Mutterschutz Manor, wasn't she married to an Altdorf mob man? Is it true that most of the children born in Mutterschutz Manor are born mutants? Why are some of the nuns so small and go around rather hunched, and why are their long whiskers protruding from under their bonnets?

Here's a complete bestiary list with actual named PCs from wfrp2 scenarios: gallery.rptools.net/v/contrib/emirikol7/WFRP2+-+Complete+creature+stat+block+list.pdf.html

Hope the name list helps.

And here's the original post that may have easier to read entries: www.enworld.org/forum/general-rpg-discussion/242937-wfrp-complete-creature-index.html

Korknadel, check out Liber Fanatica 8 when it comes out this summer - it should have some interesting names mentioned in it

Hope you did get an german native speaker for Liber Fan 8. The FFG Scenarios have stupid names for their NPC´s, take their profession, translate it into german, name him so. In the moment it is always a joke in our group when a NPC enters the stage. The group ask about his profession and then guess his name. 99% it is the right one. Not much imagination with those authors.